A Dialog Can Now Be a Native Desktop Window

Last week's native-window release could open an editor, inspector, and tool palette as separate operating-system windows. Then an ordinary Dialog.show() inside the inspector looked for the current Form and appeared on the wrong surface.

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That bug exposed every component that treated “top level” and “form” as synonyms. PR #5624 fixes those assumptions and adds something more visible: a Dialog can now become a real modal desktop window.

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